Pietersen responded to the document's publication on Tuesday night by labelling it "embarrassing".

"I don't want to comment on all that. It is a joke and embarrassing," Pietersen told the Daily Telegraph.

"They can't even spell Alastair Cook's name right."

Key statements in the leaked document

KP (Kevin Pietersen) stated that AC (captain Alastair Cook) was weak, tactically inept and that his latest effort to galvanise the team was "pathetic".

In Adelaide for the second Test, AF (coach Andy Flower) told players not to stay out late, which KP disobeyed by taking out two young players drinking with him until late (an incident which was front page news in the Adelaide press the following day).

Prior to the Perth Test, an England team physiotherapist approached AF (Andy Flower) to inform AF that KP had told him that KP was looking to do anything to go home after the Perth Test if England lost the match to go 3‐0 down. KP allegedly told the physio that if England lost the match, his knee was "going to be really playing up"

After playing a terrible shot to get out in one of his innings in the Fourth Test, KP returned to the England dressing room and in front of the younger England players, shouted "you lot are useless".

In his autobiography, to be published on Thursday, Pietersen referred to a "dossier" on his Ashes behaviour, adding that he would "love to see a copy" but had been told by the ECB "it does not exist" and also that there "would be nothing to fill a dossier with".

The governing body did not deny the existence of a fuller dossier, but said in a statement that the one published should not be equated in any way to a tour report by Flower on Pietersen.